Interview with Philip Moriarty
We talk about the impenetrability of physics, the problem with Psi and “corporate uni bollocksâ€
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UK ‘should learn from’ NZ’s example of arresting loan defaulters
Hepi report looks at New Zealand’s lessons for UK on overseas loan defaults and private expansion problems
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Anthropology atlas opens up new vistas for research
The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society
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QAA reviews raise questions over sector expansion plans
Smaller, newer alternative providers are less likely to pass higher education review, analysis says
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt
Book of the week: Meet the human computers in heels who juggled science and family, says Margaret A. Weitekamp
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What are you reading? – 28 July 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank
An economist explains to the rich that they didn’t build that, Danny Dorling writes
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My Grandmother’s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry, by Craig Raine
David Gewanter on a poet’s turning his telltale gaze to works of verse and makers of muddled readings and purveyors of ‘balonium’
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, by Dov Waxman
Projecting their hopes and fears on to Israel has polarised Jews in the US, says William Kolbrener
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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves, by Charles Fernyhough
Janet Sayers on what inner speech can tell us about our brain processes
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New and noteworthy – 28 July 2016
Timely titles for consideration take in upright citizens, fly-by-wire ethics, a world of troubling numbers and home round the range
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Mental health research ‘being short-changed’, academics claim
The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research